Pediatric hereditary angioedema
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MacGinnitie, Andrew J.
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Article
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2013
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a lifelong illness characterized by recurrent swelling of the skin, intestinal tract, and, ominously, the upper airway. It is caused by inadequate activity of the protein C1-inhibitor, with dysfunction in the kallikrein/bradykinin pathway underlying the clinical sympto